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'Complementary' raids carried out in border areas
[Dawn] From mid-August to late September, the Pak military, the US-led International Security Assistance Force and the Afghan military have conducted a number of complementary operations in the border areas, says a Pentagon report.

The report, which is sent to the US Congress under the National Defence Authorisation Act, states that “complementary operations” were conducted in the border areas of Nuristan, Kunar, Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, Paktiya, Khost, and Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
in Afghanistan.

In Pakistain, similar trilateral operations were conducted in Chitral, Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...
, Mohmand, Khyber, Kurrum, North Wazoo and South Waziristan.

The report assesses US efforts for stabilising Afghanistan and also defines the role Kabul’s neighbours, particularly Pakistain and India, can play in achieving this target.

But the US Department of Defence makes it clear that Pakistain remains a key strategic state in its own right and not just in reference to Afghanistan.

“Pakistain’s centrality to US interests is evidenced by its status as a nuclear power, its shared border with Afghanistan and India, its integral role in the fight against Al Qaeda, and its potential role in promoting stability in Afghanistan,” the Pentagon tells Congress.

Posted by: Fred 2012-12-21
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